Red Cross column: Volunteers help people recover after disasters

3:24 PM,
Dec. 19, 2013

Written by

Craig and Marnie Holmes

We began our work as Red Cross Disaster Services volunteers in 2008 after we both retired.

Marnie was a seventh-grade teacher and Craig was a civil engineer. We raised two daughters who both were in successful careers and were living out of the area. So we looked for a way to "pay back" for all of the good years that we had.

Over the years we saw that when people face their darkest hours due to disasters of many kinds, the American Red Cross was always there. It was the Red Cross that helped people deal with a world turned upside down. Red Cross was there to help provide the essentials of shelter, food and ...